Compost Happens is a personal blog: part family, part garden, part crunchy green eco-writer. I'm Daisy, and I'm the groundskeeper here. I take care of family, garden, and coffee, when I'm not teaching and doing laundry.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Eat in, Cook local

My Daily Action Plan email from Going Green Today suggested, "Eat in, cook seasonal." The focus was on preparing a dinner that highlights the flavors of local and seasonal ingredients. Requirements: local produce, a creative mind and some good seasonings.

Local ingredients in stew:Tomatoes from Farmers' Market (I'll have my own later in the summer!)Spinach from gardenHerbs from garden

Local ingredients in bars:Strawberries from Farmers' MarketRhubarb from garden

Did you notice that I didn't obsess with making every part of each dish local or organic? It would be great, but it's not realistic in my crazy-busy life. These ideas meet the goal of eating local, put a little more nutrition into the family diet, they're simple to make, and each one tastes good, too. The bonus was this: I made the egg salad and the bars during our rummage sale. Having something good to eat and easy to make kept us from wasting our time and money on fast food on those busy days.

Yum. I've been trying to cook more vegetables and more local, but since I forgot to get eggs at the farmers market I get kind of stuck...do I do local or organic, and now I hear I'm supposed to get pastured not just free-range. Anyway, great ideas, I'm going to check that out. I made cauliflower souffle with veggies from the farmers market.

Copyright, 2003-2008 by OkayByMe. All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced in any form or by any
electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval without written permission from Daisy,
the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. In other words, stealing is bad, and if
you take what doesn't belong to you, it's YOUR karma and my lawyers you might deal with.